Marek Wolynski believes culture is infrastructure. As a cultural strategist, he shapes how cities, districts, and national programmes to commission culture at scale – working with sovereign clients, master developers, and civic institutions to embed art, heritage, and public programming into the built environment from the first masterplan line onward.

He has developed large-scale projects and interdisciplinary programs across spatial, digital, audiovisual, and experiential arts. Marek has orchestrated creative commissions, steered public art initiatives, and curated multifaceted projects with leading institutions and public entities, including Riyadh Art, British Council, United Nations, Mayor of London, Luma Foundation, Art Rotterdam, and European Parliament, among others. Operating at the intersection of art, design, and architecture, Marek shapes multi-stakeholder ecosystems in which heritage, sustainability, and innovation synergise.

Marek was Lead Curator and Chairman of the Jury for Tuwaiq Sculpture 2024 and 2023, as part of Riyadh Art. He directed the artistic vision, open-call strategy, and permanent placement of nearly one hundred public sculptures across Riyadh as part of Riyadh Art – the first national public art initiative in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

His portfolio includes fostering collaborations between artists, craftsmen, designers, and engineers for Zoro Feigl’s retrospective of monumental installationsat the Verbeke Foundation as well as the world’s largest exhibition of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests, wind-powered kinetic sculptures that usually walk on beaches. As Executive Producer at D-Fuse, Marek has conceived projects stimulating placemaking, community-building, and environmental stewardship for the United Nation’s Climate Change Summit, G20 Diplomacy Program in Indonesia, Korea Foundation, London Borough of Culture, and Vietnam Season, among others.

Championing intercultural dialogues and heritage through hybrid formats and site-specific approach, Marek co-produced and curated “Entirely hollow aside from the dark” (in collaboration with Creswell Crags Museum and Heritage Centre, 2019) – a multidisciplinary project inside the only caves on the British Isles featuring Ice Age Rock Art. In 2022, he curated “Augmented Body, Altered Mind,” an interactive and participatory exhibition that used a brain-computer interface, allowing audiences to co-create the main artwork in real-time.

Additionally, Marek serves as Expert for the European Commission, evaluating and advising on cross-border cooperation projects for the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), with a focus on public art, cultural heritage, visual arts, museums, and broader EU policy priorities in culture and innovation; he also sits on the Curatorial Board of Sculpture Network, a global non-profit organisation dedicated to championing three-dimensional art.